University of California

News about University of California, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Feb. 7, 2015

University of California officials announce that in 2017 all students must be vaccinated against measles and other diseases. MORE

Jan. 18, 2015

Evaluations and pay of University of California coaches and athletic directors are now tied to academic performance of its student-athletes. MORE

Nov. 21, 2014

Board of Regents of the University of California, despite opposition from students and Gov Jerry Brown, votes 14-7 to approve tuition increases of up to 5 percent in each of next five years. MORE

Nov. 20, 2014

University of California Board of Regents gives preliminary approval to plan to raise tuition 27.6 percent over five years; Gov Jerry Brown fails to block measure in last-ditch effort; hundreds of students protest, but university system president Janet Napolitano argues that increase is necessary. MORE

Jun. 3, 2014

Dennis Overbye Out There column notes that University of California's plan to de-fund Lick Observatory, first of state's great mountaintop observatories, by 2018 has caused uproar in scientific community; says situation is in some ways representative of research institutions' struggles to balance promising futures against glorious pasts in era of shrinking budgets and diminished expectations. MORE

Jan. 21, 2014

University of California president Janet Napolitano continues to face anger and distrust on campuses filled with foreign-born students over her former role in Obama administration's deportation of 1.9 million unauthorized immigrants. MORE

Oct. 31, 2013

Janet Napolitano, president of University of California, says $5 million will be devoted to providing special counseling and financial aid for students living in the country illegally; move is aimed at disarming critics who worried she would be hostile to the small but vocal student population. MORE

Feb. 19, 2013

Jan. 29, 2013

California Gov Jerry Brown seems determined to restore luster to state’s public university system, key part of his father's legacy as governor in 1960s; is twisting arms on issues he has long held dear, like slashing executive pay and increasing teaching requirements for professors, ideas that have long been met with resistance from academia. MORE

Jan. 19, 2013

Mark Yudof, president of University of California, says he will step down at end of August 2013, citing health reasons. MORE

Dec. 27, 2012

Tanzina Vega Advertising column on how college students, who have often protested over cafeteria food, dorm life and tuition increases, have begun to object to collegiate marketing campaigns as well; latest example of a university coming under pressure over its efforts to rebrand itself is University of California, which after 144 years unveiled a new logo for the university system. MORE

Jun. 2, 2012

Californian officials say they will be forced to consider draconian cuts in financing to the University of California system if tax increases proposed by Gov Jerry Brown are not approved; after decades of budget cutbacks, the stellar reputation of the public university system is under increasing threat. MORE

Nov. 22, 2011

Occupy movement on California college campuses is transforming itself into a student-led crusade against increases in tuition; after years of watching the state’s budget for higher education erode, students are demanding that the state and university administrators find a way to lower tuition that they say is squeezing out the middle class. MORE

Oct. 21, 2011

Study undertaken by University of California statisticians designed to address critiques of climate science by skeptics has confirmed that 'global warming is real' and that the world's average land temperature has risen since the mid-1950s; longtime critics of climate science are not satisfied with the report. MORE

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